[adam_az]

"Good Lord. If you don't see how effective the Hammer was, then let's just agree to disagree, okay?"

Effective, definitely.

He effectively got socialist bills passwd like the Prescription Drug Benefit, as well as NCLB which gives the fedgov MORE power over education... not less.

He effectively got passed a porker of a highway bill and a budget, claiming there was "no fat left to cut."

He was effective at getting border security provisions removed from homeland security and intelligence reform bills by lying and saying they'd be adressed later.

Real effective!

[sailorsam777]

In The Huffington Post, this is the picture used for today's news:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thenewswire/archive/ap/delayindict.jpg

[Recovering_Democrat]

DeLay was effective in getting the tax cuts through, authorizing money for our troops, and fighting the ubersocialism of the left.

Your posts make him sound like a Maxine Waters, and nothing nothing nothing could be further from the truth.

Politics is the art of the possible, not the perfect.

Well, no matter now: Tom DeLay is gone. Whoever the Republicans elect as leader next will, I'm certain, be unfit for office in the eyes of people who think Tom DeLay was too liberal. So start makin' your list of imperfections in a majority leader now; you'll be able to attach them to nearly anyone who'll take Tom's place.